I come to you in penitence

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brian thomas madden
Junior Member

since 2010-07-08

Posts 32
Ireland (between an ocean and a rock)

0 posted 2010-08-20 01:53 PM

I come to you in penitence,
with redemption pressed against my lips,
bare soled across the arid sands of Shiloh.
Beneath, the catacombs enshrine our bones,
draped in light and bound by skeletal embrace,
We await the veil of flesh to resurrect
the naked heart that once quaked Babylon.

I come to you in abstinence,
to caress the curve of your fallen dress,
as we bathe by the shores of Galilee.
Between, a tower of Babel divides us with defiance,
I've combed its horizon, clawed tooth and nail
and blown mercurial charges beneath its surface
yet I can not pierce the chambers of your sanctum.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

1 posted 2010-08-20 02:39 PM

what a solemn and yearnful spill, here~~

~write-on~

easy1
Senior Member

since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

2 posted 2010-08-22 04:06 AM

"Sandy lands and holidays" ... I appreciate the Holy Lands references, and do know how tough it can be to be a palmer in love with an iceberg. This is good, squarely-built, thinking person's stuff. By all means please do keep composing (and then posting some here for our free reading pleasure).

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2010-08-22 06:59 AM

My first thought was,

"Wow--now this kind of writing will get ya laid in a nunnery."

I was only halfway kidding. Truly beautiful, and it is indeed sexual yet spiritual at once.

*smile*

When you come back, you really come back!

You've a gift, brian madden. It's a delight to read you again.

Sunkissed
Senior Member

since 2002-12-03

Posts 610

4 posted 2010-08-25 09:48 AM

I'm surprised this poem only has a few views. Excellent writing.

~Sunkissed

brian thomas madden
Junior Member

since 2010-07-08

Posts 32
Ireland (between an ocean and a rock)

5 posted 2010-08-26 06:52 PM

Thank you bel1e.

easy1, "do know how tough it can be to be a palmer in love with an iceberg" I like that image and may rob it for a poem lol. Holyland references kind of creeped into this poem, could be I listening to way too much Leonard Cohen at the time. Thanks for the reply.

serenity, HA ha ha.... Thats is probably the best compliment I have ever got about one of my poems. I'll be here as long as my muse allows it, and thanks as always for your support and reply.

Sunkissed, thank you.

muted

Member Elite

since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

6 posted 2012-08-09 04:03 PM

"yet I can not pierce the chambers of your sanctum."

...when we think we are fighting to break into that space...we should stop long enough to notice that we were already in there all along...

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